Everything I Have Is Yours (1952)

On the eve of their Broadway debut, the wife (Marge Champion) in a dancing duo discovers she's pregnant. Her understudy (Monica Lewis) replaces her but when she shows interest in resuming her career after the birth of their baby, the husband (Gower Champion) insists she stay home and play wife and mother. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard (IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME). MGM was the king of musicals during the 1940s and 1950s but not everything they did was gold. This dull and dreary musical is a case in point. Marge and Gower Champion had done well in their first two MGM musicals, SHOW BOAT and LOVELY TO LOOK AT but they were A productions with good songs (the songs here are a mediocre lot for the most part) and perhaps most important, they had supporting roles. This shows that they weren't interesting or charismatic enough to carry a movie on their own. Dancing they were just dandy but when the dancing stopped ..... the movie goes limp. It wasn't just the dancing that made Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers stars, they had personality and screen presence. With Dennis O'Keefe, Dean Miller and Elaine Stewart.